If business analysis is where we come up with ideas, then product development process is the factory that makes the vision real. What did we take from agile and how is it different today from 15 years ago? The magic word of today is SCALE. And the king of Scaled Agile is SAFe. I’ve already

The current buzz at the agile world is scale. Now that we know that agile looks golden, we want to apply it to everything. Agile started as a development team practice. Extreme programming, Scrum, Feature Driven Development, and others all originated in software development teams. Since they were successful, it made sense to apply those

Last time we looked at how things came to be. How things converged around a group of software developers in a ski resort: There were actual experiments in the field with reported successes. There was a funnel for communication to spread those ideas. And now there was a joint vision and a name. The agile

So this came up a few days ago: “Why Scrum Should Basically Just Die In A Fire”. My first thought was: “Of course scrum is failing him, he’s not actually doing scrum.” Second thought was: “He doesn’t understand agile at all, does he?” Third thought was: “Gil, you’re an idiot.”. Because I have been saying

David H. Hansson (@DHH) sparked the “TDD being dead” latest twitter storm. DHH is no stranger to controversy, and he certainly picked the right title for it. Of course, the responses followed immediately. and most of them fell directly into his trap. Most people were defending TDD. How? By saying that Ruby on Rails (originally

Last week I went to a presentation about Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe. I’ve read a bit about it before, but this was a more broad introduction to the topic. It’s going to be a success. When I talk about why scrum succeeded in crossing the chasms from developer world to business world, the main